Trading problems

From CAGwiki

The vast majority of trades at Cheap Ass Gamer go off without a hitch, but there are always exceptions. Follow the trading tips to reduce risk of trades going sour.

If a package is a week or more past due, and/or you haven't heard anything from your trading partner in over a week, it is time to start investigating. It is generally best to assume the other party is not scamming you until things have just broken down to a point where you want to abandon the trade.

If you ever do reach this point:

Contact your trading partner. Send him or her a PM through CAG. If you have an e-mail address or phone number, utlize those communication methods. Be respectful, but clear in what you want.
- Remember that you may be dealing with a minor and being respectful to any parent on the phone/calmly explaining what Little Johnny has been up to can really get some results.
- If you don't have a phone number, but do have an address try a lookup using http://www.411.com or www.whitepages.com.
Contact a CAG Moderator (or two) and let them know you are involved in a potentially bad trade. They will take a look and try to help, however we obviously have no real authority outside of CAG. In addition, feel free to contact the Moderator team at any step of the trading process to get their advice. Just give them all of the facts and they will try to give you some decent insight.
A week or two after the package should have arrived, leave negative feedback for the other party. This lets others know he/she is a potential problem trader. Hopefully, this will get some action out of them. The feedback can be changed if they do make good on their trade.
If payment was made with PayPal, open a dispute. This will very often get some action out of the other party. To file a complaint, login to your PayPal account and click on the Resolution Center tab under My Account. I believe you may initiate a PayPal dispute 7 days after payment if no item has been received.
If the deal involved the USPS at all (e.g. You sent a money order or items via the USPS, or paid with a USPS postal money order, or the other party promised to send things to you via USPS), you can file mail fraud charges with the USPS. For this reason, Postal Money Orders are strongly recommended when paying via money order.
File a complaint with the Internet Fraud Complaint Center.
You may also consider contacting the other party's local police department or your own police department to file a complaint. USACOPS is a handy search for local police departments.